[WikiEN-l] [WikiEn-l] Why do edit conflicts suck so much?
David Gerard
dgerard at gmail.com
Tue Mar 18 00:01:05 UTC 2008
On 17/03/2008, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17/03/2008, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The automatic merging isn't very good, I think that's a known issue.
> > I'm not sure how much it's meant to be able to cope with - I'll take a
> > look at the code.
> In my experience, as these things go, it's not too bad.
> Automerge systems have certain largely insoluble problems- for example
> if two people edit the same point in a file then then they can't
> handle it- but there's really no way to know what the correct thing to
> do would be in that case; which one do you put first? In the
> wikipedia, particularly talk pages, people often add things in the
> same place, so a conflict will be flagged.
It's much better than before we had automatic merging. That was a
*major* pain in the arse on any page with any degree of activity.
WP:ANI is probably a good example of an automerge stress test.
- d.
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